John B. Ford

Who is John B. Ford?

John B. Ford is a British horror writer and publisher. An introverted youth, he left school at the age of 16. He spent the next sixteen years performing a variety of jobs, including those of a car park attendant and a factory laborer.

He turned to writing on New Year’s Day 1995, after suffering from a massive panic attack. His birth name, used prior to the attack, has been a well-guarded secret.

His fiction focuses on the themes of death and madness and is often written in the atmospheric styles of William Hope Hodgson, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers and M.P. Shiel.

In 1996 he established BJM Press, launched Terror Tales magazine, and published a series of chapbooks by such horror writers as Michael Pendragon, Paul Bradshaw, Steve Lines, Paul Kane, Paul Finch, David Price and Quentin S. Crisp.

His magazine, Terror Tales, has a strong cult following.

In 2001, he and Steve Lines of Rainfall Records collaborated to create Rainfall Records and Books, which continues to publish horror books.